When everyone's done with their work people usually play their pirated copies of Quake III on the computers at my school. I was glancing over their screens and noticed that half of the people had pings of 0 and the other half had something around 50. Anyone know why it's like that?

Just bought a RevoDrive 3 120GB, my plan is to have Windows 7 on it along with PS, AE and some steam games.

Does anyone have a program which makes sorting HDD/SDD installs and stuff easy? I remember a program which made you able to choose which games from steam and just with a click of a button it was on the SSD.

Just bought a RevoDrive 120GB, my plan is to have Windows 7 on it along with PS, AE and some steam games.

Does anyone have a program which makes sorting HDD/SDD installs and stuff easy? I remember a program which made you able to choose which games from steam and just with a click of a button it was on the SSD.

Just bought a RevoDrive 3 120GB, my plan is to have Windows 7 on it along with PS, AE and some steam games.

Does anyone have a program which makes sorting HDD/SDD installs and stuff easy? I remember a program which made you able to choose which games from steam and just with a click of a button it was on the SSD.

When everyone's done with their work people usually play their pirated copies of Quake III on the computers at my school. I was glancing over their screens and noticed that half of the people had pings of 0 and the other half had something around 50. Anyone know why it's like that?

Maybe they weren't local players, they might have 'accidentally' hosted a server, and your schools network just so happens to allow external connections.

I have an i7 920, and it runs pretty good temperatures, but I have a Thermaltake SpinQ, and it was a last minute thing because I forgot I ordered an OEM. So, should I sell this cooler and get a different one, or is there another one with better price/performance?

On my school 's computers, if I plug my phone in, it complains because I don't have the admin rights to install hardware. The flash drive part of it works, so how do I suppress the error because of the rest?

So I'm looking to reinstall Windows Vista Home Premium but I need a good copy of the software, can you guys suggest any software to burn it to and with which settings? (I've tried before with Imgburn at 4x and it completely wigged out during installation).

So I'm looking to reinstall Windows Vista Home Premium but I need a good copy of the software, can you guys suggest any software to burn it to and with which settings? (I've tried before with Imgburn at 4x and it completely wigged out during installation).

Also just so you lot don't yell at me I DO have a legit product key.

whatever image file you use make sure you verified it is a complete download via md5 checksum or something. that happened to me before and i ended up wasting a dvd

Just need a little bit of reassurance: There's no difference between OEM and retail copies of Windows, right? I'm not sure if the copy I used before was OEM or not since my key is OEM.

This is the text that is on a swedish website. Used google translate

webhallen.com posted:

OEM licenses are for you if you are an experienced computer builder. The product comes in a simple packaging and comes with no support from Microsoft, although features such as Windows Update, of course, included.

Retail licenses give you the same functionality as the OEM, but comes with support facilities so you can contact Microsoft by phone / email if you have questions about operating system.

But I herd that OEM key get some kind of "locked" to your mobo. Not sure about that.

At what point should I worry about a HDD's heat? And what can I do about it if it's an issue?

I have two WD2500KS that I've had for about six years that I just found are running at about 55C, according to Speccy. I have only recently checked those temps, so I have no reason to believe they have ever run cooler. Are these things time bombs waiting to fail right now?

Also, they are positioned directly downwind from my front intake fans and spaced with open slots above and below. And still running at mid-50s.

At what point should I worry about a HDD's heat? And what can I do about it if it's an issue?

I have two WD2500KS that I've had for about six years that I just found are running at about 55C, according to Speccy. I have only recently checked those temps, so I have no reason to believe they have ever run cooler. Are these things time bombs waiting to fail right now?

Also, they are positioned directly downwind from my front intake fans and spaced with open slots above and below. And still running at mid-50s.

On my school 's computers, if I plug my phone in, it complains because I don't have the admin rights to install hardware. The flash drive part of it works, so how do I suppress the error because of the rest?

Since I'm at a physical keyboard now, I'll elaborate.

When I plug my phone into the school computer, Windows (XP) asks me to give the username and password of an administrator to install a piece of hardware called (approx.) "CDC Serial". I'm going to assume it has something to do with tethering (which I have no interest in doing). The USB storage driver installs fine and I can still use it as USB storage, so I just click Cancel at this dialog, at which time Windows raises a huge stink about me trying to install hardware even though I don't have admin rights and blah blah blah for a few seconds then lets me carry on with my work.

I'd rather have Windows ignore this particular piece of hardware until such time as an admin explicitly comes along and tells Windows to install this hardware (a.k.a. the fifth of never). It's low priority yes, but errors that can be solved (or suppressed when irrelevant) bother me. I don't know if this can be suppressed so part of my mind assumes it can.